Sport » Farai Machamire, Sports Writer
Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:34
HARARE - Taipanei Charenzva, who captained the Zimbabwe basketball team at the All-Africa Games back in 1995, believes the sport will continue to sink if funding remains elusive. Basketball is now a barely recognisable discipline in the country despite being one...Read More
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Sport » Farai Machamire, Sports Writer
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:10
HARARE - The Zimbabwean rowing team put up an impressive show at the eighth African Rowing Championships held in Alexandria, Egypt, where rowers from nine countries competed. Led by Micheen Thornycroft, the Zimbabwean team scooped eight medals including three gold, three...Read More
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Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:56
JOHANNESBURG - They say records are set to be broken. Last Sunday, the little Argentine and Barcelona great Lionel Messi just did that when his two goals at Real Betis took him past German legend Gerd Müller’s officially recognised 40-year old...Read More
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Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:33
HARARE - Southen African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (Sadc PF) will this Friday join other stakeholders in Harare at a regional summit on media and gender being hosted by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (Zuj). The Sadc PF is an...Read More
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Monday, 10 December 2012 10:29
HARARE - For years, Africa’s premier football tournament, the African Nations Cup, has failed to match its European or American version, mainly because of the timing of the tournament, which normally results in a spate of withdrawals by top players based...Read More
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Monday, 10 December 2012 09:18
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says most African leaders are turning against their own people “through unrestrained intolerance and dictatorships”. Speaking at Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party convention in Kenya on Friday, Tsvangirai said African leaders had abandoned...Read More
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Africa »
Thursday, 06 December 2012 13:32
JOHANNESBURG - A military plane carrying 11 passengers has crashed in South Africa's mountainous east. The plane, which had been travelling from Pretoria to Mthatha, went missing on Wednesday but the initial search was abandoned due to poor weather. The wreckage...Read More
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Wednesday, 05 December 2012 18:48
HARARE - The Orange African Nations Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) and South African Travel Centre (SATC) have teamed up to make it easier and more enjoyable for football fans to attend the forthcoming 29th Afcon finals. The much anticipated biennial...Read More
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Sport » Farai Machamire, Sports Writer
Monday, 03 December 2012 13:42
HARARE - Premier Soccer League (PSL) club Chicken Inn have ruled themselves out of the Caf Confederation Cup while Monomotapa are still hopeful of representing the country in the second-tier competition after the two clubs missed Friday’s registration deadline. Chicken Inn,...Read More
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Business »
Saturday, 01 December 2012 13:09
HARARE - Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) — which recently restarted operations after a four-year closure — is targeting a production of 7 000 tonnes of nickel concentrate per annum spurred by higher quality grades at Trojan Mine (Trojan). Mwana Africa plc...Read More
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Monday, 26 November 2012 09:51
HARARE - An NGO aligned to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has written to immigration authorities seeking the blacklisting of officials from Partnership Africa Canada (Pac) which recently claimed $2 billion has been looted from Marange diamonds. Resource Exploitation Watch (REW)...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Sunday, 25 November 2012 10:07
HARARE - Southern academics and policy-makers from the North have touted South Africa as an important case study to probe African understandings of democracy. The view that Africans perceive democracy simply in liberal and procedural terms (minimalist or thin approach), postulating...Read More
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Sunday, 25 November 2012 09:50
HARARE - Desperate Zimbabwean migrants working on South African farms are faced with the dilemma of standing for their rights or risk losing their jobs, reports have suggested. Many Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa either sold all their belongings...Read More
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Entertainment » Sharon Muguwu, Entertainment Writer
Saturday, 24 November 2012 11:57
HARARE - Maybe dancehall and sungura are not meant to be mixed. An attempt by sungura artiste Gift Amuli to hold joint shows in South Africa at the end of the month with dancehall artiste Freeman has sparked a bitter exchange...Read More
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Business » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
Saturday, 24 November 2012 11:53
HARARE - Zimbabwe has been ranked third out of the top four African nations with the highest cases of fraud, according to global audit group KPMG’s Africa Fraud Barometer. In the Barometer, KPMG said findings revealed South Africa has the highest...Read More
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